''Starmera'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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within the
Saccharomycetales order. It is placed within the
Phaffomycetaceae
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family
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.
''Starmera'' is often associated with
necrotic lesions in
cacti
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.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by Yuzo Yamada, Tetsuo Higashi, Susumu Ando and Kozaburo Mikata in Bull. Fac. Agric. Shizuoka Univ. vol.47 on page 31 in 1997.
The genus name of ''Starmera'' is in honour of
William Thomas Starmer (b.1944), an American
botanist
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and emeritus professor of biology in the
College of Arts and Sciences
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at
Syracuse University
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.
Species
As accepted by
Species Fungorum;
* ''
Starmera amethionina''
* ''
SStarmera caribaea''
* ''
SStarmera dryadoides''
* ''
SStarmera foglemanii''
* ''
SStarmera ilhagrandensis''
* ''
SStarmera pachycereana''
* ''
SStarmera pilosocereana''
* ''
SStarmera quercuum''
* ''
SStarmera stellimalicola''
References
External links
*
Starmera' at
Index Fungorum
Saccharomycetes
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